IMA’s satyagraha for healthy India

Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) satyagraha for a healthy India to be conducted on the World Tolerance Day will also see the doctors provide free services to people on the streets.Payal Gwalani | November 10, 2015, 06:35 IST

Nagpur: Doctors from across the country will take to streets on Monday in protest of certain laws they consider faulty. Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) satyagraha for a healthy India to be conducted on the World Tolerance Day will also see the doctors provide free services to people on the streets.

A memorandum with the demands and justifications of the medical community has already been forwarded to prime minister Narendra Modi and will be presented to district and state authorities on the day. The association has conveyed to all its members not to keep their establishments closed or unattended. Those wishing to participate in the protest have been instructed to give higher priority to patients.

“The laws that we are opposing are those which we see as impractical or faulty in some way. In a way, the protest is for the society’s benefit as these laws, if implemented, would lead to medical services becoming unaffordable for the common man,” said IMA Nagpur president Dr Anand Kate. Doctors need to be free of fear for their own safety or the law in order to provide good services to the patients, he added.

“All members have been told to attend to any emergencies or prescheduled procedures on the day. They may choose not to perform elective surgeries or procedures that can be done on a later day,” informed Dr Ashok Adhao, patron of the city branch of IMA. He also appealed to the people to gather more information about why the medicos are opposing these laws and offer their support to the protest.

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